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NASB 1 Kings 7:23 ¶ Now he made the sea of cast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits, and thirty cubits in circumference.
AMPLIFIED 2015 1 Kings 7:23 ¶ Now he made the Sea (basin) of cast metal, ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, five cubits high and thirty cubits in circumference. [Ex 30:17-21; 2 Chr 4:6]
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Subject:  1Ki 7:23 apparent error measuring sea

Bible Note:  I disagree that the circumfrence would probably be measured internally. It MIGHT be, but no reason to think PROBABLY. If measured by a chord or string (KJV, NKJ, NIV) it would PROBABLY be outside. I cannot read the original Hebrew.

Chuck Missler explained it with the numeric values of the Hebrew characters. That a squiggle mark (like a jot or tittle) was missing from some manuscript. The numeric value without the mark was 105. The mark added 5 (106 plus 5 eq. 111), increasing the circumfrence to 30x111/106 eq. 31.415, dividing by pi gives a diameter of 9.9997 instead of 10.

But I don't understand how these numeric values of the Hebrew characters (106, 105, 111) relate to cubits (10, 30). Nor am I comfortable with the idea of a "misspelling" in the manuscript.

Can anyone clarify this explanation, or is there a better one?

LocalSaint

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